[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia: a subject of academic enquiry in the strangest ways

[Andrew Gray]

There are moments you know you've gained acceptance by the Establishment.

I have been sent a copy of last year's Microeconomics finals paper
from the University of Oxford, where we find the quite marvellous:

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SECTION A: THEORETICAL

Q 2. "Should Wikipedia be taxed or subsidised"?

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Note the complete lack of any *definitions*. Whoever set the paper
clearly treats the existence of Wikipedia as a simple fact of basic
knowledge, and assumes their students all have a rough idea of what it
is and how it works...

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- Andrew Gray
 andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk